This is jailed Reading burglar Kyle Hill – introduced to the criminal world after his dad got him hooked on heroin.

Drug user Hill burgled homes and other buildings – including schools and supermarkets – across Reading to fund his habit.

On Friday last week, at Reading Crown Court, the 24-year-old, of Red Cottage Drive, Calcot, was sentenced to three years in prison for three burglaries.

On October 12, he targeted a home worth nearly £800,000 in Calcot, stealing a Cartier watch worth £4,000, and on June 17 he stole laptops and other electrical equipment from Little Heath School in Tilehurst.

Later that day he stole from the staffroom at Sainsbury’s in Calcot and took people’s bags and other personal property.

Santi Basi, prosecuting, said Hill entered Sainsbury’s close to junction 12 of the M4 where he sneaked into a staffroom and made off with people’s property.

On October 12, he broke into the home in Mill Lane, Calcot. Miss Basi explained the homeowner returned at 5.30pm and noticed a laptop had disappeared.

She said: “The housekeeper was at home. She [the homeowner] spoke to her husband and housekeeper and searched the rooms.

“She noticed a Post-it note had been disturbed at her desk. Her Cartier watch had vanished.”

Police took fingerprints from the area and they matched Hill’s. It emerged he had also targeted Little Heath School in Little Heath Road and taken computers, computer carry cases and chargers.

Miss Basi, adding he had previously been jailed for 30 months for a number of burglaries, said: “The defendant has 22 convictions for 24 offences.”

Martin Hooper, defending, said Hill committed crimes to fund his drug habit, a situation he described as “depressingly familiar”.

“The person who started his drug use was his late father,” he said.

“His father was a drug addict who led him [Hill] into heroin. His childhood was led astray.

“His sister and mother are supportive of him.”

He said Hill had a “degree of intelligence” and understood the impact his crimes had.

“There’s real hope here a young man can turn his life around,” he finished.

Sentencing Hill to three years in jail, Judge Stephen John said: “The burglary involved an individual and someone’s home. Until you address your drug use there will always be a high risk of you offending.”